The Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering Department had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Khaled EL-MAHGOUB - one of its 2001 alumni - and currently a Senior Validation Engineer @ ThingMagic (Trimble Navigation) and a Research Affiliate with Auto-ID Labs, Massachusetts Institute of Technologya (USA). Dr. EL-MAHGOUB delivered a talk at the EECE Department in the Hammam Lecture Hall, which was attended by many EECE Staff and students. It was followed by a Q&A session which helped illustrate some of the new trends in the RFID Systems and is applications. Following is a short description of the talk and a brief biography for the speaker. A copy of the presentation can be downloaded.

Title: 
The Role of RFID in IoT

Abstract :

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology which uses RF signals for automatic identification of objects. RFID is used for many applications in various areas such as electronic toll collection, asset identification, retail item management and many others. RFID-enabled organizations can achieve numerous strategic and economic benefits such as: collecting accurate information about anything efficiently, automating common business processes, reducing inventory loss, improving productivity, as well as increasing data security and integrity. 



In this presentation a description about different RFID technologies in today's market will be provided. In addition, in the presentation I will try to briefly describe the role of RFID in the advancements of the Internet of Things (IoT), and explore the future approaches for possible usage of RFID in IoT systems. Moreover, a brief description about different technologies that could be used as an identification and sensing tools will be provided.

Brief Bio:

Khaled EL-MAHGOUB received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electronics and electrical communications engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Mississippi, USA in 2010. From 2001–2006, he was a teaching and research assistant at Cairo University. From 2007–2010, he was a teaching and research assistant at the University of Mississippi. EL-MAHGOUB is a research affiliate with the Auto-ID Labs at the MIT. Currently, he is working as senior engineer at Trimble Navigation, Cambridge, MA, USA. Possessing over eight years of experience in industry, he is a senior member of the team working in testing and developing RFID technology. Throughout his academic years, he coauthored over 35 technical journals and conference papers. He is the main co-author of two book entitled "Enhancements to Low Density Parity Check Codes: Application to the WiMAX System", 2010 and "Scattering Analysis of Periodic Structures Using Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method", 2012. EL-MAHGOUB is assistant editor for Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Journal. He is also a frequent reviewer for many scientific journals, conferences, books, and has chaired technical sessions in international conferences. He is a senior member of IEEE, member of ACES and Phi Kappa Phi honor society.  EL-MAHGOUB is listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering. He is the recipient of ACES Early Career Award, University of Mississippi scholarship for Ph.D. Degree, University of Mississippi graduate school summer assistantship and Mobinil Scholarship for Master’s Degree. His current research interests include RFID systems, channel coding, FDTD, antenna design, and numerical techniques for electromagnetics.